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Agencies

American Line

SEOUL UNSAN GOLD MINES-CHEMULPO

Dollar Steamship Co.

American Express Co. (Shipping

correspondents)

South British Insurance Co., Ld. Wilkinson, Heywood & Clerk First National Pictures Universal Picturs Co.

TEXAS CO. (CHINA) LTD., THE, Petroleum and its Products-12, Furnichi-machi, Itchome; P.O. Box 25 (Nandaimon);

Cable Ad: Texaco

L. M. Carson, dist. mgr. (Korea)

E. C. Robinson

G. A. Flynn

TOA SANSHI KAISHA, Silk Filature-15,

Kanko-dori

TOYO BUSSAN KAISHA, Merchants

YAMAJU SEISHI KAISHA, Raw Silk-11,

Kanko-dori

YONEI SHOTEN, Merchants

UNSAN GOLD MINES

ORIENTAL CONSOLIDATED MINING CO., THE -Postal Ad: Hokuchin, Chosen (Korea); Cable Ad: Pukchin, Hukuchin

J. B. Lower; gen. manager (Pukchin) A. E. Deardorff, cashier (Tabowie) S. E. Iijima, secy. to genl. mgr. do. H. Cupp, supt., timber railway do. W. H. Aldridge, mech and electrical

engr. (Taracol)

G. C. Evans, metallurgist (Taracol) E. L. Power, M.D., medical officer do. F. Roberts, mine foreman (Tabowie) K. Dale Johnston

H. S. Bonestell (Taracsl) V. J. Morris

do.

Chas. D. Hatfield do.

Dana W. Leeke, assayor

do.

M. R. Arick (Taracol) assayor T. Lynch (Tongkoe)

F. A. Tompson (Taracol) M. B. Ordung

do.

E. Larsen, mill foreman (Tabowie) B. Pedersen, machinist (Taracol) J. P. McCarthy, mine foreman

T. F. McCoy A. Mihailov

Alton Cupp (Tabowie) B. P. Smith

do.

(Tabowie)

V. Mihailov J. K. Moyer

Miss Grace Pryor, school teacher

(Tabowie)

Capt. E. S. Bartsow, agt. (Chinnampo) Townsend & Co., agents (Chemulpo)

Leonard Birnie, agents (Kobe)

CHEMULPO

浦物濟 Che-mil-po.

This port, called by the Japanese Jinsen, and by the Chinese Jenchuan, is situated on the west coast of Chosen (Corea), in the metropolitan province of Kyongki, at the entrance of the Salée River, an embouchure of the Han or Seoul River. It was opened to foreign trade in 1883, when it was a poor fishing village, and is now a flourishing and rapidly increasing centre of trade, with a population in March 1930 of 59,553 (native 45,763, Japanese 11,534). A railway runs from Chemulpo to Fusan, meeting the line from Seoul at Yong-dong-po (Yei-to-ho).

The annual trade of Chemulpo is Yen 140,000,000 (about 1,200,000 tons). Its principal drawback is a tidal variation of 33 feet, owing to which there only exists berthing accomodation at present for 3 vessels of 4,500 tons. All larger vessels must lie outside Sho-Getsubito island, in the outer anchorage. A new scheme of reconstruc- tion, to be completed by 1933, calls for an expenditure of Yen 1,400,000, and includes the construction of a berthing pier 371 metres long on the south side of dock to accomo- date 5 vessels of 2,000 tons, the reclamation of an area of 87,375 square metres for warehouses etc. and the building of a groin to prevent silting.